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(Source: Government of Canada ) Industry Minister joins Canadian Astronaut Jeremy Hansen and students in Ottawa to announce support for the most powerful telescope ever built March 26, 2015 - Ottawa, Ontario Today, Industry Minister James Moore and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Jeremy Hansen joined students at Elgin Street Public School to talk about Canada's proud...

(Source: NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ) This is the second installment in a four-part series of conversations with Paul Geithner Deputy Project Manager - Technical for the James Webb Space telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland about different aspects of the telescope. Using...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed its first significant mission milestone for 2014 -- a Spacecraft Critical Design Review (SCDR) that examined the telescope's power, communications and pointing control systems. "This is the last major element-level critical design review of the program," said Richard Lynch, NASA Spacecraft Bus Manager for the James Webb Space...

(Source: NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ) A big, bright James Webb Space Telescope "STTARS" is now deep in the heart of Texas. The Space Telescope Transporter for Air Road and Sea (STTARS) is a giant white shipping container with a very important cargo: a test model of part of the Webb telescope, called the "Pathfinder Backplane." This new NASA video...

James Webb Space Telescope Deployment In Detail

published:08 Apr 2014

James Webb Space Telescope Deployme

James Webb Space Telescope Deployment In Detail

This video shows in-depth what will happen when James Webb Space Telescope deploys after launch. For more information, see this description on our website: http://jwst.nasa.gov/faq.html#howdeploy
You...

Hubble at 25 & the James Webb Space Telescope: Dr. Amber Straughn

published:04 Feb 2015

Hubble at 25 & the James Webb Space

Hubble at 25 & the James Webb Space Telescope: Dr. Amber Straughn

NASA Astrophysicist Dr. Amber Straughn discusses the 25th anniversary of the Hubble telescope's launch as well as the construction and plans for the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in ...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Sunshield Deployment Test

published:01 Oct 2014

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) S

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Sunshield Deployment Test

A major test of the sunshield for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was conducted in July 2014 by Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, Calif. For the first time, the five sunshield test layers were unfo...

James Webb Space Telescope | Window into the past of the Universe | 2014

JWST Live at AA2 224: JWST Mission Update

published:06 Jan 2015

JWST Live at AA2 224: JWST Mission

JWST Live at AA2 224: JWST Mission Update

All this week, we will be holding LIVE Hubble Hangouts at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle Washington. Please subscribe to our channel to be notified of new events as...

published:06 Jan 2015

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), previously known as Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), is a planned space telescope optimized for observations in the infrared, a formal successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The main technical features are a large and very cold 6.5 meter diameter mirror, an observing position far from Earth, orbiting the Earth–Sun L2 point, and four specialized instruments. The combination of these features will give JWST unprecedented resolution and sensitivity from long-wavelength visible to the mid-infrared, enabling its two main scientific goals — studying the birth and evolution of galaxies, and the formation of stars and planets.

James Webb Space Telescope Deployment In Detail

This video shows in-depth what will happen when James Webb Space Telescope deploys after launch. For more information, see this description on our website: http://jwst.nasa.gov/faq.html#howdeploy
You can download this video in various formats on our website as well: http://jwst.nasa.gov/videos_deploy.html

Hubble at 25 & the James Webb Space Telescope: Dr. Amber Straughn

NASA Astrophysicist Dr. Amber Straughn discusses the 25th anniversary of the Hubble telescope's launch as well as the construction and plans for the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2018.
Presented on January 7, 2015 at the Museum of Flight.

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published:04 Feb 2015

updated:04 Feb 2015

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Top 5 Awesome Things About the Webb Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope is the successor to the Hubble's throne. In order to pick up extremely faint infra-red signals from extremely distant stars an...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Sunshield Deployment Test

A major test of the sunshield for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was conducted in July 2014 by Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, Calif. For the first time, the five sunshield test layers were unfolded and separated; unveiling important insights for the engineers and technicians as to how the deployment will take place when the telescope launches into space.
Credit: Northrop Grumman

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published:01 Oct 2014

updated:01 Oct 2014

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James Webb Space Telescope | Window into the past of the Universe | 2014

JWST Live at AA2 224: JWST Mission Update

All this week, we will be holding LIVE Hubble Hangouts at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle Washington. Please subscribe to our channel to be notified of new events as they are posted or check our webpage:
Please join Tony Darnell and Alberto Conti as they discuss the latest news and status of the James Webb Space Telescope with Scott Willoughby and Jon Arenson from Northrup Grumman.

duration:39:52

published:06 Jan 2015

updated:06 Jan 2015

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James Webb Space Telescope Update: Sunshield Deployment Test

In August 2014, at their +Northrop Grumman facilities in Redondo Beach, California engineers successfully stacked and unfurled the five layers of the largest part of the observatory: the massive sunshield.
The successful unfurling was the first time this had been done and everything worked perfectly.
The Sunshield is about the length of a tennis court, and will be folded up like an umbrella around the Webb telescope’s mirrors and instruments during launch. Once it reaches its orbit, the Webb telescope will receive a command from Earth to unfold, and separate the Sunshield's five layers into their precisely stacked arrangement with its kite-like shape.
Please join +Tony Darnell Dr +Alberto Conti and +Scott Lewis as they discuss the test conducted last Summer with engineers and scientists at Northrup Grumman and +NASA Goddard as well as the details of the deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope.
As always, we look forward to your questions and comments as well, see you then!
For more information:
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasas-webb-sunshield-stacks-up-to-test/#.VCWjJ-ecbJM

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published:26 Sep 2014

updated:26 Sep 2014

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The James Webb Space Telescope: The Largest Telescope Ever Launched

DeepAstronomy site is undergoing a makeover: http://deepastronomy.com. Please stop by and take a look. The James Webb Space Telescope is due to launch no ear...

Time-lapse: James Webb Space Telescope Pathfinder

A time-lapse via the "Webb-cam" in NASA Goddard's cleanroom. The view shows the pathfinder (or test) version of the James Webb Space Telescope's backplane being moved via crane from the assembly stand to a giant packing container. The backplane is like the spine of the spacecraft and the telescope mirrors are mounted on it. This pathfinder was in NASA Goddard's cleanroom for tests and to have two spare primary mirrors (plus a spare secondary mirror) mounted to it. Then it was moved into the shipping container called STTARS - Space Telescope Transporter for Air Road and Sea.
STTARS, with the pathfinder in it, then was shipped to NASA Johnson to undergo cryogenic testing.

duration:1:43

published:04 Mar 2015

updated:04 Mar 2015

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Mark Clampin plenary: James Webb Space Telescope: The Road to First Science Observations

The James Webb Space Telescope is a large aperture, infrared telescope planned for launch in 2018. Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentatio...

John Mather Maniac Lecture, November 19, 2014

Nobel Laureate John Mather presented a Maniac Talk entitled "Creating the Future: Building JWST, what it may find, and what comes next?" In this lecture, John takes a rear view look at how James Webb Space Telescope was started, what it can see and what it might discover. He describes the hardware, what it was designed to observe, and speculate about the surprises it might uncover. He also outlines a possible future of space observatories: what astronomers want to build, what we need to invent, and what they might find, even the chance of discovering life on planets around other stars.

duration:59:16

published:24 Nov 2014

updated:24 Nov 2014

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The Most Sophisticated Mirror in the Universe

Hank summarizes the five reasons why infrared telescopes were supposed to be impossible to build, and then describes how a team of scientists and engineers o...

Burton High Fives - Competitions Start Tomorrow

Press Release: TUNE IN: Watch the Second Annual Burton High Fives snowboarding competition LIVE on on September 12 and 13 WHAT: The second annual Burton 'High Fives' presented by MINI snowboarding competition, is now underway at Cardrona Alpine Resort in Wanaka, New Zealand. A live webcast of the slopestyle and halfpipe competitions will be on with the slopestyle coverage... more